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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: njguy99007 on February 14, 2004, 11:00:33 AM

Title: Email Other Than OUTLOOK
Post by: njguy99007 on February 14, 2004, 11:00:33 AM

Will Avast scan email other than outlook, for example, Yahoo, Excite or MSN's Hotmail?

Title: Re:Email Other Than OUTLOOK
Post by: Vlk on February 14, 2004, 11:08:51 AM

Only if the incoming mail protocol is POP3 or IMAP4.

Title: Re:Email Other Than OUTLOOK
Post by: Lisandro on February 21, 2004, 05:25:50 AM

Quote from: njguy99007 on February 14, 2004, 11:00:33 AM

Will Avast scan email other than outlook, for example, Yahoo, Excite or MSN's Hotmail?

As I know, avast! works with these Internet Mail Clients: MS Outlook (including Outlook 2003), MS Exchange, MS Outlook Express, Eudora, Pegasus Mail, Netscape Mail, Mozilla Mail, IncrediMail and The Bat!  ;)

Title: Re:Email Other Than OUTLOOK
Post by: Vlk on February 21, 2004, 10:36:23 AM

That's only the case with the Mail Protection Wizard - i.e. the 'automatic setup' thing.

If you're able/willing to do the config manually, avast can protect any SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 based mail client.

Vlk

Title: Re:Email Other Than OUTLOOK
Post by: RejZoR on February 21, 2004, 11:05:11 AM

Quote from: njguy99007 on February 14, 2004, 11:00:33 AM

Will Avast scan email other than outlook, for example, Yahoo, Excite or MSN's Hotmail?

Outlook(or any other similar mail client) uses POP or IMAP protocol which is scanned by Internet Mail provider(or Outlook provider),for Yahoo and MSN its used a Standard Shield. When you view Hotmail or Yahoo Mail,files in browser cache are scanned by Standard Shield and when you download attachement form such web based email,they're also scanned by Standard Shield.

Title: Re:Email Other Than OUTLOOK
Post by: njguy99007 on February 21, 2004, 05:39:05 PM

If someone can give me the directions to do it i will.
Hopefull, it will work, I like Avast so far.

Title: Re:Email Other Than OUTLOOK
Post by: RejZoR on February 21, 2004, 06:30:39 PM

POP: localhost
User: your_username#pop.something.com
Pass: your_password

SMTP: localhost
User: your_username#smtp.something.com
Pass: your_password

Just type in these informations in any mail client.
I think you can use this for MS Outlook too if you didn't install Outlook/Exchange provider.